User:Johndburger

Some of my philosophy, Horatio

 * I'm just here to work on an encyclopedia.
 * I believe edit summaries are an oft-missed opportunity for communication, and I use them pretty religiously. In fact, I rarely use my rollback privilege, because it leaves uninformative summaries.
 * I try to observe a one revert rule, except in obvious cases of repeated vandalism.
 * I think references are very important—otherwise, this isn't much of an encyclopedia. I like inline citations.

Articles I've put a lot of work into
Rosie the Riveter • Boston Latin School • Netflix Prize • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

See my other edit stats.

Other things I work on

 * Developing Navibot. It finds missing disambiguation entries and adds them to the appropriate page—see below
 * Developing enwikipedia, a bot that announces featured Wikipedia content on Twitter
 * Cleaning up references and citations
 * Adding Persondata
 * Applying MOSDAB
 * Spam
 * unit-converter.org • mycomponents.co.uk • convertunits.com • onlineconversion.com

Tools I use
Citation templates • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&hideliu=1&namespace=0 Last 500 anon. edits] •

Bots etc.
I'm working on Navibot. It will find disambiguation entries, e.g.:
 * Pages of the form foo (bar) that are missing from a foo (disambiguation) page (or a foo page that's in Category:Disambiguation)
 * Pages of the form foo (disambiguation) that do not have a disamb link from foo.
 * Missing disambiguation pages—that is, there are three or more real articles named foo, foo (bar), etc., but no foo (disambiguation)

I'm also thinking of writing a formatting bot that would do stuff like this:


 * Correctly italicize titles in obvious cases, e.g., this Primeval (film) can be corrected to this Primeval (film).
 * Clean up non-standard -th, etc., dates, like in Nicolaus von Amsdorf:
 * He died at Eisenach on May 14th 1565
 * But see discussion with idiosyncratic editor: User_talk:Johndburger

A "descriptor" bot (terrible name). This approach could also be used when adding entries to disambiguation pages.
 * Find bare mentions of people in lists like "Notable graduates" or "Notable residents"
 * Formulate short descriptions from the corresponding article, using WP:Persondata and other heuristics
 * Add these descriptions to the bare mentions in the list

To do list

 * Add main pages to categories where appropriate.
 * Putting Boston_Latin_School in Category:Boston Latin School alumni
 * Expand Human language technology